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Choosing INTERNATIONAL GROUP MINERALS as partner for your blast cleaning, preparation and surface treatment operations, means to grant top standards to your work, low metric consumption and high productivity in complete sefety. IGM branded Garnet is produced using natural crystals of almandine garnet family, mineral known for its enhanced hardness and tenacity characteristics which interact along with the high specific weight, makind it one of the best natural abrasive media. IGM Garnet means also safety and ecological protection.

The product is free from heavy metals and toxical elements, thanks to production process eliminating any possible dangerous element, most of all free silica, for a totally safe work with minimum level of exposition and health risks. Our committment and attention on quality allowed to create low emvironmental impacting abrasives, extremely low in chlorides content, metallic Iron and electrical conductivity. This policy allowed our material to be credited and certified by the most important international orgainizations.

INTERNATIONAL GROUP MINERALS SAS is partner of major shipyards, oil comapanies and professional blasting companies, but most of all of the many big or small users which thanks to their wide and diversified requests keep on helping and supporting us in order to improve a product which is actually suitable to be used in all surface preparation field, like stainless steel, ferrous metals, alloys, aluminium tested and approved by paint manufacturers.

Selecting INTERNATIONAL GROUP MINERALS means not only to be sure to have first quality products, but to be certain of an organization which is totally committed to give the maximum attention and support to customers expectations. Most of recycled materials is obtained by exhausted abrasives deriving from petrolchemical or naval sandblasting. As a general result a massive loss of abrading power is reported, due to fraction of internal crystalline structure, bringing to minor abrading power and to raised powderity.
On second instance have been found intrusions of hazardous elements (paint and hydrocarbons particles) inside recycled/regenerated products, that can be easily found also on a simple olfactory test, with evident risks for human health and with a heavy impact on the environment, causing also an uncreased wear of abrasive jet instrumentation.

INTERNATIONAL GROUP MINERALS proposes new Garnet only, with maximum quality standards and most of all with the certainty of being able to work in absolute safety and without risks. Check the alternative options and value your choice, IGM Garnet is quality, safety and competitiveness.